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So why did Resistance never become Sony's Halo? I asked Insomniac CEO Ted Price for his thoughts during a recent interview.

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"We have theories internally about why Resistance wasn't a Halo," Price told me. "One is that we changed the game a lot in Resistance 2, and we surprised players in a way that perhaps wasn't what was expected. And that may have not been a good thing. By changing up some of the core mechanics and— we got a lot of strong feedback when we did that."

Maybe that's why the series never sold gangbusters: it changed too much.

"On Resistance 3, we went back to some of our more traditional core mechanics that players did love, and then built a story that was more personal," Price said. "That in our opinion was the way to move the franchise forward in a way that was unique for first-person shooters. We're really proud of Resistance 3. The team felt very personally connected to Resistance 3."

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I also asked Price how he felt about the Vita's critically-panned Resistance: Burning Skies.

"For Resistance, we didnt have the bandwidth to move onto the Vita," Price said. "We were really happy that Nihilistic went ahead and created their own vision of Resistance, and we feel very close to the franchise cause we created it, but it's always interesting to see what other people do with it."

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"Did you play it?" I asked.

"A little bit of it," he said.

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"Did you enjoy what you played?" I asked.

Price paused. "I thought that what they did with the game made a lot of sense, in terms of the decisions that they came to with their core mechanics. So I felt like it stayed true to the universe...